Asia in Pictures

Making lanterns in China, elections in South Korea, ice skating in North Korea and more.

Dec. 18, 2012 10:45 p.m. ET

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Villagers made Chinese lanterns in Yaxi village, east China's Zhejiang Province, Tuesday. The village has more than 200 families, half of whom make a living by making lanterns. In 2012, Yaxi produced millions of lanterns, worth 80 million yuan ($12.8 million).
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Hindu Pakistani tribal women participated in a protest for more rights in Lahore.
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Hindu devotees bathed and performed morning rituals at Sangam, the confluence of Rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Allahabad, India, Tuesday. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are expected to arrive here in January for the Maha Kumbh festival, a religious congregation that takes place once every 12 years.
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A North Korean man skated in a new ice skating rink along the Taedong river in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Ng Han Guan/Associated Press…

Female Afghan National Police trainees fired their weapons at a shooting range at a training center near the German Bundeswehr army camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan.
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An Orthodox priest conduct a blessing service in front of the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Soyuz, with U.S. astronaut Thomas Marshburn, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on Wednesday.
Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters…

Relatives of killed workers mourned at a hospital in Karachi after at least five polio vaccination workers were killed and two others were injured in separate shooting incidents.
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The Tokyo Dome indoor baseball stadium, bottom left, known as Big Egg, and other buildings in are shrouded in the morning mist.
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A diver dressed as Santa Claus fed fish at the Underwater World Singapore on the island of Sentosa.
Edgar Su/Reuters…

A supporter of South Korea's presidential candidate Park Geun-hye held up portraits of her father, the late South Korean military dictator Park Chung-hee, left, and of both parents, Park and Yuk Young-soo, during an election rally in front of a railway station in Busan, southeast of Seoul.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters…

A girl looked out from the entrance of a temple as her mother offered daily prayers inside the temple in Lalitpur, Nepal.
Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters…